The Palestinian Authority announced on Wednesday that it is cancelling
outstanding electricity debts for each West Bank resident, on the heels
of a deal that aims to help assuage the electricity companies' own
arrears.
Government spokeswoman Nour Oudeh told Ma’an that all
residential bills owed until Dec. 31, 2012 will be canceled. Businesses
and people facing investigation for electricity theft will not be
included in the deal. [?? ]
The decision aims to open a new chapter of 100 percent enforcement of payment of electricity bills, she said.
On
Sunday, PA premier Salam Fayyad signed a deal with popular committees
in West Bank refugee camps ending refugees' exemption from electricity
costs, but also canceling all their outstanding debt.
Palestinians
in Nablus gathered on Tuesday to protest the exclusion of non-refugees
from the debt amnesty, leading to violent clashes with Palestinian
security forces.
Palestinian power companies said the gap in
payments from refugees was a main reason for their accumulating debts.
Other enforcement issues were all hampering bill collection, they said,
calling for stronger penalties for debtors.
In the summer,
Palestinian officials said Israel was threatening to cut off power over
the unpaid debts, which total around $100 million after December's tax
seizure by Israel, which was transferred to the Israeli electricity
supplier.
Ma'an News
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Israel's Violence on Palestenians
Right to Defend itself
Israel has always cried 'holocaust' tears to the world while singing the old tune of "Defending itself and its citizens".
How do they do it? By banning or killing international journalists by bribing their supportive governments.
Palestine is destroyed as a State so is Gaza. Meanwhile the "chronically suffering Israel" has developed to a point it does not need Uncle Sam anymore, see their infrastructure, see their military development up to nuclear programs... and they are the eternal "poor" in need.
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